Program Location: Oyo West, Ogbomoso South, Iseyin, andIbarapa North LGA Beneficiaries: 3,000 In-and-Out of School Girls Funder: UNICEF/NOA Oyo State 1. Increase the knowledge of FGM and Joint Programme amongselected In-and-out of School girls. Increase the advocacy skills of the In-and-out of School girlsand Women. Develop a plan of action for advocating and step down...

Program Objective: To improve the quality of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH)and eliminate Female Genital Mutilation Program Location: 5 selected communities in each of OLUYOLE(Muslim, Olomi, Odò-ona, New Garage and Orita Challenge) and LAGELU(Monatan, Ayegoro, Wofun, Ejioku and Lalupon) LGAs ofOyo State Target Audience: Adolescent girls, Secondary School Students, Community Stakeholders and Health workers...

Program Objective 1. To sensitize and Educate Health Workers on Consequences of FGM 2. To advocate for elimination of medicalization of FGM amongst community health workers Program Location: Ibadan North, Lagelu and Egbeda LGA Beneficiaries: 3,000 Pregnant Women, Women of reproductive age and community health workers. Funder: #endcuttingirls

Funder: CISHAN OYO STATE /Action Aid Nigeria The aim of the third party monitoring exercise was to monitor andevaluate the outputs and outcomes of the implementation of theN-SIP. It is aimed at capturing beneficiaries’ voice and providingfeedback to the NSIO with the aim of improving the delivery ofservices in the programme. A total of 23,400...

Funder:Office of the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria / ActionAid Nigeria Partners:Coalition of Civil Society Networks on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria – Oyo State Chapter (CiSHAN Oyo State) & Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria (TBI NG) Project Overview The project was part of a Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) exercise aimed at tracking, assessing, and improving the National Social...

We were at Ido community in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State for a 1-day advocacy meeting with influential leaders to support the elimination of female genital mutilation in the community. Ido community is one out of the 10 communities where we have received support from UNICEF Nigeria to implement the project “Strengthening the...

1. Increase the number of young mothers and pregnant women withaccess to information on FGM and promote the abandonment of FGM 2. Provide a safe and enabling environment for young mothers andpregnant women to discuss FGM 3. Build the capacity of Health Workers, young mothers and pregnantwomen to run campaigns on FGM Program Location: Oluyole...

Alhaji (Dr) Sule is an Islamic scholar and a lecturer at Lanlate college of Education in Ibarapa East LGA of Oyo State who believes every girl child should mutilated because in his opinion, Islam said so. He was planning to cut her girls before her wife reached out to one of Youth Activists in the...

Mr Ganiyu Ismail – a circumciser in Ayete Community of Ibarapa North LGA of Oyo state revolted against the campaign to eliminate FGM in his community because of his strong believe in the practices of FGM. He had a change of mind after attending several UNICEF funded program in his community and he is now...

The Nigeria Election Violence Report (NEVR) project is supported by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). The project focuses on developing the capacity of civil society to monitor, analyze…